Sally Ride: Female Astronaut is aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts, addressing Literacy.RI.2.1 and Literacy.L.2.1e. Readers follow the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into outer space, through full-page color photographs along with narrative nonfiction text. This book should be paired with "Sally Ride: The Sky's the Limit" (9781477724514) from the InfoMax Common Core Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.